(DULAC, Edmund illustrates) Helen BeauclerkThe Love of The Foolish Angel W. Collins Sons and Co. Ltd, London, 1929 First edition, first impression.Octavo. Original blue patterned cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the Dulac-designed dust jacket.Spine very slightly faded but an excellent copy in the tanned and somewhat ruled dust jacket. Signed by both the author and Dulac on the front free endpaper. Very uncommon in signed state.[120]

SHEPARD Ernest H. MILNE A. A.Christopher Robin Story Book 1929. First Edition . Signed. MILNE, A.A. The Christopher Robin Story BookÂ… Illustrated by Ernest H. Shephard. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1929. Octavo, original three-quarter green cloth, pictorial peach paper boards, original paper spine label, uncut and partly unopened, original acetate dust jacket, original matching illustrated peach box. $2600.Signed limited first American edition, number 340 of 350 copies signed by Milne and Shepard.A wonderfully illustrated collection of stories and verses from Milne's four ""Pooh"" books: When We Were Very Young, Now We Are Six, Winnie-The-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner. Preceded only by the first English trade edition. See Cutler &amp; Stiles, 117. Box soiled and rubbed with minor wear. Book lovely and near-fine with only slight soiling to binding, with remnants of original acetate.

John WisdenJohn Wisden's Cricketers' Almanack for 1929 - 1929 to 1937 Wisden Hardbacks Set of 9. 1929. This lot is a Set of 9 Hardback Wisdens - 1929 to 1937. In OK Condition, including the hard to find 1934 (Bodyline Wisden). This set would be rated as 6/10 , it is not the best in terms of condition but the books are all steady , as we know 1933 to 1937 tend to be rougher than the other HBs after the change of materials by Wisden. The 1929 has worn boards, the 1932 has some marks to the spine, 1933/5/6 has facsimile spine gilt. 1929 has repaired hinges but all the rest are strong and original. 1934 is in top form, all photoplates present and correct. A steady set for someone looking to pick up most of the 1930s Hardbacks. More details on request.

CHESTERTON, G. K. (1874-1936).The Poet and The Lunatics. Episodes in The Life of Gabriel Gale. London, Cassell. 1929. First Edition. 8vo. Near fine copy in publisher's black ribbed cloth, titled in bright gilt to the spine. Slightly bumped at the head of the spine. Dustwrapper worn at head and tail of spine with trifling loss, a little chipped to the extremties, bright and unfaded, there is a little darkening to the spine chiefly noticeable from the result of the removal of a label at the base of the spine that has resulted in a noticeably cleaner spot. Light spotting to page edges, internally clean.Gabriel Gale is an eccentric poet. His madness is the madness of insight and he uses this gift to solve or prevent crimes committed by madmen. Chesterton ably illustrates his own premise that lunacy and sanity may just be a point of view. Bleiler; Checklist of Fantastic Literature [281]. Book Collector No.273, p34.

Stein, GertrudeAn Acquaintance With Description The Seizin Press, London 1929 - 50 pages. 21 x 14.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 52 of 225. The Seizin Press was founded by Robert Graves and Laura Riding in 1927. Seizin One' was a work by Riding, this volume was Seizin two. Stein's signature slip pasted adjacent to the title page signed in Paris and returned to Seizin in London for insertion. Tiny Gotham Book Mart, NY bookseller label back cover paste-down. Cello adhesion remnants free front and back endpapers. Orig. pebbled white cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt. Near fine [Attributes: First Edition; Signed Copy; Hard Cover]

Haesler, Otto (Architect); Otto Völckers (Text by); Arthur Köster (Photographs by)Die neue Volksschule in Celle: ein Beitrag zum Problem des neuzeitlichen Schulhauses Englert & Schlosser, Frankfurt a.M. 1929 - Quarto (10 1/4 x 9 1/2"). 40pp. Original photo-illustrated wrappers. Illustrated with 35 b/w photographic reproductions and 10 drawings and plans, this work is a splendid monograph on the architecture of the "Altstädter secondary school" in Celle, Germany. The school was built in 1927/28 by the Bauhaus architect Otto Haesler, and is considered today as one of the ten most important buildings in the Bauhaus style. Otto Haesler (1880-1962) was an influential German architect who is often grouped with Bruno Taut, Ernst May and Walter Gropius as being among the most significant representatives of the Modernist ("Neues Bauen") architecture that became important initially during the Weimar period. Haesler championed the building of social housing, providing improved living conditions for an increased number of tenants at an affordable rent. He wanted to reduce costs and at the same time improve living spaces by using standardized floor plans and employing the newly available steel frame construction methods. He therefore oriented and designed his developments to maximize the use of sunlight, replacing corridors with living rooms able to benefit directly from the afternoon sun, and bedrooms directly accessible from the day-time living spaces.Wrapper slightly age-toned and rubbed along edges. Previous owner's name in ink, dated 1929 at upper margin of title page. Text in German. Wrappers in overall good to good+, interior in very good condition. [Attributes: Soft Cover]

Cummings, Ray[mond King]THE MAN WHO MASTERED TIME A. C. McClurg & Co., Chicago 1929 - Octavo, pp. [1-10] 1-351 [352-358: blank] [note: last three leaves are blanks], original red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. First edition. Travel by time machine to Earth's far future. "THE MAN WHO MASTERED TIME completes the trilogy of my tales of Matter, Space, and Time [THE GIRL IN THE GOLDEN ATOM and "The Fire People" dealing with the first two matters, respectively]." - Ray Cummings (from foreword to a later appearance in FAMOUS FANTASTIC MYSTERIES). Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 2-24. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 516. Clareson, Science Fiction in America 1870s-1930s 226. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 63. Sargent, American and British Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 185. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p.54. Reginald 03693. From the Jack Warring collection with his signature and rubber-stamped name and address and 30 October 1929 date stamp on front free endpaper. Endpapers and page edges tanned, slight spine lean, else a bright, very good or better copy in very good four-color pictorial dust jacket (reproducing a superb color painting by Allen St. John on the front panel) with wear and shallow fraying along upper and lower edges, tiny chips from front corner tips, dust soiling to spine and rear panels, and light fading to spine title lettering. A nice copy overall. (#156826) [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

FAULKNER WilliamSound and the Fury 1929. First Edition . FAULKNER, William. The Sound and the Fury. New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, (1929). Octavo, original half white cloth, black and white patterned paper boards, later-issue dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. $5250.First edition of FaulknerÂ’s masterpiece, in bright later-issue dust jacket (the first-issue dust jacket is exceptionally scarce).Faulkner's intricate masterwork began its life as an innocuous short story ""about a girl and her brothers,"" gradually growing into ""this radically different work, this immense leap in technique that would contribute to one critic's calling him 'the greatest innovator in the history of American fiction"" (Blotner, 212). ""The book suggests Joyce in its technique and the RussiansÂ— perhaps DostoyevskyÂ— in its theme. Fundamentally it owes little to any individual or to any school: it stands alone as a unique and startling conception"" (from front flap). Later-issue dust jacket, with Humanity Uprooted priced at $3.50 instead of $3.00 on the rear panel. Petersen A6.2a. Brucolli &amp; Clark I:121. Brodsky 65. Evidence of bookplate removal. A couple pencil notations to front flap of dust jacket.Book with a couple spots of soiling and slightest toning to spine, dust jacket with light wear mainly to edges and usual toning to spine. A very good copy.

GRAVITT, Lola[Photo and Scrapbook Albums]: Telephone Operator Los Angeles: , 1929-1963. Los Angeles. 1929-1963. Two volumes. Quarto and octavo. Three-ring blue cloth binder and padded three-ring album with "Lola" and decorative gilt on the front board. The photo album contains 69 color and black and white photographs (with another 12 in the scrapbooks), all measuring between 3" x 3" and 8" x 10", some with captions on the rear. Overall about fine with light wear to the extremities. The photo album and scrapbook of Lola Gravitt who worked as a telephone operator for Pacific Bell for 43 years. Gravitt attended the Frank Wiggins Trade School graduating in 1930 to work for The Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company until 1963, retiring as a supervisor. These albums feature images of Gravitt and her co-workers from the 1930s-1960s including women working the switchboard, receiving service awards, at wedding showers, birthdays parties, and at retirement, sometimes in costume for theme events like Halloween. Gravitt is often present or at the center of the activities. The scrapbook includes her various certificates from trade school, anniversary cards, ID card, programs for work events, and several letters congratulating her on retirement. An interesting collection of photos and ephemera related to one the earliest acceptable women's career options. .

Farquhar George [Laboureur, Illus]BEAUX STRATAGEM. A comedy With Seven Engravings on Copper by J. E. Laboureur and an Introduction by Bonamy Dobree Bristol: Douglas Cleverdon, 1929. COPY NUMBER 1 of the this LIMITED FIRST EDITION, SIGNED by the Illustrator, J. E. Laboureur. With, an extra set of the engravings in final state housed in a foldover sleeve at the end of the book. This copy signed and with a special design by Laboureur on the upper cover. Printed on Batchelor hand-made paper. Including the normal copies a total printing of only 527 copies was accomplished. With a total of 15 engravings, the 7 called for engraved illustrations on plates by J. E. Laboureur bound in with tissue guards, a second set of the plates in final state housed in a sleeve at the rear and with an additional plate of the engraved title-page vignette added to this copy and not called for in the records. 8vo, in the original vellum over green cloth boards, the spine gilt lettered and with the special design by Laboureur stamped in gilt on the upper cover. xxviii +128 pp. A very fine copy, essentially as pristine. FIRST EDITION, COPY NUMBER 1 OF THIS LIMITED SIGNED EDITION WITH THE ADDITION OF LABOUREUR'S FINE LYRICAL PLATES. The Beaux' Stratagem, a comedy, was first produced at the Theatre Royal in the Haymarket, London, on March 8, 1707. In the play, Archer and Aimwell, two young gentlemen who have fallen on hard times, plan to travel through small towns, entrap young heiresses, steal their money and move on. In the first town, Lichfield, they set their sights on Dorinda, but Aimwell falls truly in love, and the comedy ensues. A master draftsman, engraver, etcher, and lithographer, the French Cubist, Jean-Emile Laboureur illustrated books by such authors as Andre Maurois, Jean Giraudoux, Colette, Andre Gide, Paul-Jean Toulet, Maurice Maeterlinck and François Mauriac. This is one of the few titles in English to be graced with his workmanship.

HEMINGWAY ErnestFarewell to Arms 1929. First Edition . HEMINGWAY, Ernest. Farewell to Arms. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. Octavo, original black cloth, gold paper labels, original dust jacket. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $9500.First trade edition, first issue, of the novel that Â“placed Hemingway, early, among the American masters,Â” in scarce first issue dust jacket.""Probably [Hemingway's] bestÂ… Its success was so enormousÂ… After it one could no more imitate that musical crystal-clear style; blown like glass from the white-heat of violenceÂ… the beginning, like all his beginnings, seems effortless and magical"" (Connolly, Modern Movement 60). ""The novel that placed Hemingway, early, among the American mastersÂ… the most satisfying and most sustained, the consummate masterpiece, among Hemingway's novels. It bears the mark of Hemingway's best gifts as a writer"" (Mellow, 377-79). First edition, first printing with publisher's seal on copyright page, no disclamer on page x; in first issue art deco dust jacket by Cleonike Damianakes, with front flap misspelling of the heroine's name as ""Katharine Barclay"" instead of ""Catherine Barkley."" Appeared simultaneously with a limited edition of 510 numbered copies. Hanneman 8a. Bruccoli &amp; Clark, 178. Book fine. Scarce original dust jacket unrestored with a bit of toning to spine and mild edge-wear to spine ends and front upper corner only; lovely front panel clean and quite bright. A beautiful about-fine copy, most scarce in this condition.

De Haas, Jacob; Louis D. BrandeisLouis D. Brandeis: A Biographical Sketch. New York: Bloch Publishing Company, 1929. First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by Justice Brandeis on the front free endpaper, "My good friend Louis E. Kirsten November 27, 1929 Louis D. Brandeis." In near fine condition. With special reference to Brandeis' contributions to Jewish and Zionist history with full text of his addresses delivered from 1912 to 1924.

MORSE, William Inglis.GRAVESTONES OF ACADIE and other Essays on Local History, Genealogy and Parish Records of Annapolis County, Novia Scotia. With photographs by the Author. [xvi], 110pp. Illustrated throughout. Quarto. Full green morocco elaborately decorated in gilt and blind by Douglas and Sidney Cockerel. Binding initialled and dated (1930) at rear. Modern slipcase of matching green morocco over marbled paper. First edition, being number 45 of 500 copies printed. Slight spotting on endpapers front and rear; author's card mounted on title-page and inscribed; 'Gravestones of Acadie Compliments of the Author to James McConnell July '31.' On the verso of the title part of the copyright that refers to the United States has been blocked out in indelible pencil - presumably by the author - and this shows through on to the title. A very good copy of the book in a superb binding from the Cockerel bindery.

COURNOS, John, trans.) LERMONTOV, Mikhail YurievitchA Song about Tsar Ivan Vasilyevitch, his young body-guard and the valiant merchant Kalashnikov. With decorations by Paul Nash. London: The Aquila Press, 1929 - Octavo pp. [iv] 24, viii. Original orange crushed full morocco, front cover decorated to a design by Paul Nash with white and black calf onlay, blind rules, top edge black, others untrimmed. Bookseller's ticket to foot of front pastedown. Light fading to spine, slight rubbing to bottom edge of boards; an excellent copy. Text printed in gothic type orange and black on grey paper, 4 woodcut designs in the text by Nash. First edition thus, limited issue, number 36 of 750 copies on Maillol handmade paper. The Aquila Press was established with the object of "producing literary works of high merit not otherwise easily accessible", such as this folk epic by Lermontov, who is known as Russia's greatest poet after Pushkin. Paul Nash was a leader of the revival of wood-engraving in the early twentieth century; these examples demonstrating his artistic move towards abstraction. Ransom p. 201. [Attributes: First Edition]

(COURNOS, John, trans.) LERMONTOV, Mikhail YurievitchA Song about Tsar Ivan Vasilyevitch, his young body-guard and the valiant merchant Kalashnikov. London: The Aquila Press,, 1929. With decorations by Paul Nash. Octavo pp. [iv] 24, viii. Original orange crushed full morocco, front cover decorated to a design by Paul Nash with white and black calf onlay, blind rules, top edge black, others untrimmed. Text printed in gothic type orange and black on grey paper, 4 woodcut designs in the text by Nash. Bookseller's ticket to foot of front pastedown. Light fading to spine, slight rubbing to bottom edge of boards; an excellent copy. First edition thus, limited issue, number 36 of 750 copies on Maillol handmade paper. The Aquila Press was established with the object of "producing literary works of high merit not otherwise easily accessible", such as this folk epic by Lermontov, who is known as Russia's greatest poet after Pushkin. Paul Nash was a leader of the revival of wood-engraving in the early twentieth century; these examples demonstrating his artistic move towards abstraction.

[Ellis, Havelock]; Ishill Joseph, Compiler and EditorHAVELOCK ELLIS IN APPRECIATION... With an Unpublished Letter by Thomas Hardy to Havelock Ellis, and a Foreword by Isaac Goldberg... Berkeley Heights, NJ: Privately Printed by the Oriole Press, 1929. LIMITED FIRST EDITION, One of only 50 copies on Alexandra Japan vellum, this is copy number 28. Of the plain paper issue, 450 copies were printed additionally. Illustrated with 15 plates from various sources, primarily portraits and facsimiles. Also with embellishments such as initials and headpieces by Louis Moreau throughout. 8vo, in the printer's deluxe binding created only for this very limited issue, of vellum backed boards over paper handsomely designed and decorated in metallic colours, printed paper label on the spine, t.e.g. xlvi, 299, [1] pp. A well preserved and handsome copy of this rare limited issue, the Japan vellum with the lightest of the toning common to the material, the binding well preserved with only minor expected age mellowing. FIRST EDITION QUITE RARE IN THIS SPECIAL LIMITATION ISSUANCE,.We know of no other copies currently on the market. Havelock Ellis was a noted English physician, writer and social reformer but is best known for his pioneering works on Human Sexuality, which he studied as a science and attempted to bring out of the shadows and away from the period taboo and Victorian prudishness. Ellis viewed sexual activity as the healthy and natural expression of love, and he sought to dissipate the fear and ignorance that characterized many people’s attitudes toward human sexuality. This tribute includes contributions from over forty noteworthy persons including; Bertrand Russell, H. L. Mencken, Clarence Darrow, Horace Traubel and Margaret Sanger. There is also a significant glimpse at Ellis' life and works by Joseph Ishill, a reprinting of a letter in Ellis' defense by George Bernard Shaw and more.

JUDAICA PALESTINEEmergency Decree concerning 1929 Riots in Palestine 1929. (JUDAICAPALESTINE) CHANCELLOR, Sir John Herbert (High Commissioner for Palestine). Minshar [ManifestoEmergency Decree of the British High Commissioner Concerning the 1929 Riots]. Jerusalem: Press of the Greek Monastery, September 4, 1929. Broadside (measures 17 by 20 inches), printed on recto. Framed. $5500.Emergency decree in Hebrew issued by the British High Commissioner for Palestine announcing special power to be given to the Courts in conducting trials for those arrested for violent conduct in the 1929 riots in Palestine.On August 23, 1929, following a ten-month build-up of tension over the disputed rights of Jews to pray at the Western Wall, an Arab mob attempted to attack Jews in Jerusalem. The outbreak of violence spread to other parts of the country and on the following day, Arabs murdered some 70 Jews in Hebron. In the week of bloody violence that ensued, there were attacks in Tel Aviv, Haifa and 18 Jews were killed by an Arab mob in Safed. Before the week had passed, large detachments of British troops were brought in, arresting numerous Jews and Arabs, and finally restoring order to the country. In the disturbances 133 Jews were killed and 339 wounded, mainly in Jerusalem and Hebron; Arab casualties, chiefly from police action, were 116 killed and 232 wounded.In this Emergency Decree, the British High Commissioner for Palestine, Sir John Herbert Chancellor, announced that special powers were to be given to the Courts in conducting the trials of those arrested, the aim being to ensure a fair trial and to determine whether the attacks were spontaneous or premeditated. He also announced the formation of a Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry to be headed by Sir Walter Shaw to inquire into the immediate causes of the riots. Finally, he concludes, the incidents will not result in a change of British policy with regard to Palestine as laid down in the 1917 Balfour Declaration, namely to favor the establishment of a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine. Despite Sir Johns final assurance in this Emergency Decree, the Shaw Commission decided the cause of the riots had been Arab feelings of animosity consequent upon the disappointment in their national aspirations and fear for their future. Thus the Commission proposed restriction of Jewish migration to Palestine and restrictions on the purchase of land by Jews. As a result, in October 1929, the Colonial Secretary Lord Passfield issued a White Paper which further whittled down the meaning of the Balfour Declaration and the Mandate and foreshadowed fresh restrictions on Jewish immigration and settlement in Palestine (Encyclopaedia Judaica). With seal of the British High Commissioner of Palestine. Text in Hebrew. Fine condition. Scarce.

DETECTIVE FICTION.) KENNEDY, Milward.Corpse Guards Parade. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1929 - Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in red. With the dust jacket. Some minor foxing to edges; an excellent copy in the jacket that has sunned spine and edges, and a few nicks to extremities. First edition, first impression. One of Kennedy's earlier books - a light-hearted detective story. From the publisher's archive. [Attributes: First Edition]

Victor SEGALENEquipée. Voyage au pays du réel First edition, one of 75 numbered copies on Hollande, tirage de tête after 10 Chine and 30 Japon.Small trace of sunning, not serious, to head of spine, endpaper and some edges slightly sunned to head and foot.Good copy with edges preserved. Plon Paris 1929 14x22,5cm broché

Philippe PETAINLa bataille de Verdun Second edition after a few days to the first edition also printed in February 1929.Handwritten signature of Philippe Pétain on the half-title page.Illustrated book of 8 cards, 18 prints.Foxing on small boards.Payot Paris 1929 14,5x23cm broché

Herbert Hoover and Andrew MellonWorld War Foreign Debts Commission Act Signed Photograph. 1929. Signed photograph of the members of The World War Foreign Debt Commission and the Belgian Commission. Signed below by each member, including Herbert Hoover (Secretary of Commerce and future President of the United States), Andrew W. Mellon (Secretary of the Treasury), Frank B. Kellogg (Secretary of State and 1929 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize), Reed Smoot (United States Senator and co-sponsor of the 1930 Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act), Theodore E. Burton (United States Senator from Ohio), Charles R. Crisp, Richard Olney, Edward N. Hurley, Garrard B. Winston, Arthur N. Young and F.G. Blair of the Debt Commission. Also signed by Emile de Cartier, Emile Francqui, Felicien Cattier, Georges Theunis, Robert Silvercruys and Andrew Terlinden of the Belgian Commission. In near fine condition. Matted and framed, which measures 14 inches by 15 inches. Rare. The United States federal World War Foreign Debts Commission Act of February 9, 1922 authorized the creation of a commission, working under Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon, to negotiate repayment agreements with Great Britain and France in the aftermath of World War I. The Commission placed the Allied debt principal to the United States at $11 billion; payments were to be made in graduated 62 annual installments; however, the accrued interest on these payments over a period of 62 years would have increased the debt to approximately $22 billion, although the U.S. did agree to lowered interest rates. Great Britain's debt was reduced 19.7% to $4.6 billion with the interest rate reduced from 5% to 3% for the first ten years of payment to be raised to 3 1/2 % thereafter. France's debt was reduced by 52.8% to $4 billion, without any interest for the first five years of payment. It was then to be increased gradually to 3 1/2 %. The Harding administration made it clearly understood that the United States had no interest in cancellation. This position was widely supported by the public, which felt that those who incur debts should repay them. This tight-fistedness was not well received in Europe, where the image of Uncle Sam slowly gave way to "Uncle Shylock."

YEATS, W.B.The Winding Stair. The Fountain Press, New York. 1929 - First edition. Octavo. pp [vi], 27. Original blue cloth with gilt decorative borders on covers and with a leather author-label on the spine - the other label bearing the publisher's name is missing and reveals, in blind, the original publisher, [Crosby] Caige. This is not to be confused with the 1933 collection of the same name. One of 600 numbered copies signed by the author.Covers just a little marked. Purple endpapers a little faded at edges; some minor chipping and creased to outer edge of front free endpaper. Very good. [Attributes: First Edition; Signed Copy; Hard Cover]

Steinbeck, JohnCup of Gold A Life of Henry Morgan, Buccaneer New York: Robert M. McBride & Co, 1929. First Ediiton. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket. First issue of the author's first book; yellow cloth, printed in black, 269 pages, top edges stained blue. "First published August 1929" on copyright page. One of just 1537 copies printed. A very near fine copy, internally clean and bright, with no markings of any kind.

DOYLE, Sir Arthur Conan.The Maracot Deep. And Other Stories.- The Disintegration Machine, The Story Of Spedegue's Dropper and When The World Screamed. London, John Murray 1929. FIRST EDITION, 8vo. Publisher's red cloth, titles in gilt to the front board and spine, in original pictorial dustwrapper. Some edgespotting else a fine copy in a very good jacket with a couple of short tears, slightly toned to spine. Uncommon. A collection of scientific fiction stories, two of which feature Professor George Challenger, who first appeared in 'The Lost World'. Along with Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, Professor Challenger stands in the front rank of the immortal characters created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A collection of scientific fiction stories, two of which feature Professor George Challenger, who first appeared in 'The Lost World'. Along with Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, Professor Challenger stands in the front rank of the immortal characters created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Green and Gibson; A Bibliography of Arthur Conan Doyle.

DOYLE, [Sir] Arthur Conan (1859-1930).The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes. John Murray, London, 1929, First 'Cheap' edition [FIRST EDITION, Second Impression]. 8vo., pps. 320. Publisher's brown cloth, titled to spine in gilt, in pictorial dustwrapper. Some edge spotting, gilt to binding toned else binding is fine, 3/6 wrapper with minor wear/creases and a couple of short tears. A most attractive copy, housed in a leather-spined clamshell box. Formerly sold by the Sherlockian dealer Nigel Williams, with his pencil notes to flyleaf. The Case-Book was first published in 1927, priced 7/6, in pink cloth; this 'cheap edition' (3/6, being the second impression) followed in 1929 but was cased in brown cloth and titled only on the spine. De Waal [573] Green & Gibson p198 [A46a], also p575.

SELDES, George.The Truth Behind The News 1918-1928 London: Faber and Gwyer, 1929 First impression. Octavo. Original red cloth with black titled to the spine. Front free endpaper inscribed. Foxing on block edges and may have inside. Tight binding, pages are clean. Dust jacket soiling with small edgeworn, clipped, spine browned a bit. Henry George Seldes (1890-1995) was an American investigative journalist and author of several publication talking about world politics, freedom of the press, communism and censorship. 355 pp.

Stein, GertrudeAn Acquaintance With Description London: The Seizin Press, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. pebbled white cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt. Near fine. 50 pages. 21 x 14.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 52 of 225. The Seizin Press was founded by Robert Graves and Laura Riding in 1927. Seizin One' was a work by Riding, this volume was Seizin two. Stein's signature slip pasted adjacent to the title page signed in Paris and returned to Seizin in London for insertion. Tiny Gotham Book Mart, NY bookseller label back cover paste-down. Cello adhesion remnants free front and back endpapers.

GRAVITT, Lola[Photo and Scrapbook Albums]: Telephone Operator Los Angeles. 1929-1963. Two volumes. Quarto and octavo. Three-ring blue cloth binder and padded three-ring album with "Lola" and decorative gilt on the front board. The photo album contains 69 color and black and white photographs (with another 12 in the scrapbooks), all measuring between 3" x 3" and 8" x 10", some with captions on the rear. Overall about fine with light wear to the extremities. The photo album and scrapbook of Lola Gravitt who worked as a telephone operator for Pacific Bell for 43 years. Gravitt attended the Frank Wiggins Trade School graduating in 1930 to work for The Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company until 1963, retiring as a supervisor. These albums feature images of Gravitt and her co-workers from the 1930s-1960s including women working the switchboard, receiving service awards, at wedding showers, birthdays parties, and at retirement, sometimes in costume for theme events like Halloween. Gravitt is often present or at the center of the activities. The scrapbook includes her various certificates from trade school, anniversary cards, ID card, programs for work events, and several letters congratulating her on retirement. An interesting collection of photos and ephemera related to one the earliest acceptable women's career options. .

CHURCHILL, Winston S.Stanley Baldwin and Winston Churchill. London: 15 April, 1929. Original photograph, gelatin silver process. Good condition, oxidisation throughout image. Image size: 36.5 x 27.5 cm Signed by both Baldwin and Churchill in the mount below the image. This pre-war photograph shows Prime Minister Baldwin and his Chancellor of the Exchequer in conversation seated at the table in the Cabinet Office at Downing Street. Churchill's role as Chancellor of the Exchequer was ended soon after this photograph by defeat in the general election held on 30 May 1929.

Davies, Frederick; Davies SeymourDrinks of all Kinds London: Sir Isaac Pitman Ltd, ca 1929. Hardcover. Very Good. Undated, though assumed to be published circa 1929. Very Good, with small stains to cover, light rubbing to cloth at corners and spine ends, offsetting to end papers. A scarce guide covering a variety of recipes, including cocktails, fancy drinks, punches, warm drinks and temperance drinks.